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by nec4b 8 days ago
> If you don’t want immigration, but you still want to buy time then you have to end socialist entitlement programs for the elderly.

One big downside of any kind of social programs is that it conditions the population to rely solely on the state, thinking that their payments into the system will guarantee them safety. We tend to forget for a state to exist and to provide services, it needs people. Those people need to be born, raised and cultured in order to act as a community.